There are 6,745 new community cases of Covid-19 and 339 hospitalisations. Of those in hospital, 15 are in the ICU.

Today’s seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7,512 – last Saturday it was 7,415.

Twelve people have died with Covid-19. The deaths reported today include people who have died over the past two days.

These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 857. The seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 16.

Of the people who have died, three were from Auckland; two from Waikato; one from MidCentral; two from the Greater Wellington region; three from Canterbury and one from Southern.

One person was in their 40s; one in their 60s; two in their 70s; four in their 80s and four were aged over 90.

The first electoral impacts of Boris Johnson’s “Partygate” scandal have made themselves felt across Britain and Northern Ireland, with the prime minister’s Conservative party losing just under 400 council seats across the nation, according to the latest counts.

Unsurprisingly, Labour and the Liberal Democrats were the big winners, with Keir Starmer’s Labour picking up 252 seats and Ed Davey’s Lib Dems 189. The Green party and the centre-left Scottish National Party also made significant gains.

According to BBC analysis, the Conservatives would lose 112 seats at a general election if these voting patterns held. There would be a hung parliament, as no party would have an outright majority.

In London, Labour won three councils from the Tories, taking control of Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet. It was their first ever win in the wealthy Westminster borough, which covers neighbourhoods including St John’s Wood, Knightsbridge, South Kensington and Mayfair.

Labour also made gains in the “red wall” areas of northern England – traditionally solid Labour strongholds that fell to the Tories in Johnson’s landslide victory in 2019 – but it was not the unequivocal performance Starmer would have hoped for.

“[Voters there have] certainly fallen out with Johnson, but they’re not ready to take the leap with us yet. It’s not just Corbyn; the view is quite entrenched and will take a long time and a concerted effort and persistence to recover from,” one former senior Labour MP told The Guardian.

In Northern Ireland, the republican Sinn Féin is on track to be the largest party in the assembly, taking the reins from the Democratic Unionist Party for first time since Northern Ireland was founded a century ago.